A406 crash in Barnet on 31 December 2017 at 20:20 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A406 in Barnet at 20:20 on Sunday 31 December 2017. The 32-year-old male driver, a 35-year-old male passenger and a 23-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2017
- Sunday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5896, longitude -0.19685, in the N3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Finchley Church End, Barnet, N3 3DY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010080954
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 406
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 April 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in Barnet, 14 April 1989
At the same spotRef 198901SV00224
Slight
Car crash on the A406 in Barnet, 12 July 2021
9 m awayRef 2021010319144
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in Barnet, 16 August 1988
10 m awayRef 198801SG00464
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in Barnet, 3 December 1987
10 m awayRef 198701SG00615
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A406 in Barnet, 13 August 2004
10 m awayRef 200401TB00369
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A406 in Barnet, 26 June 2015
10 m awayRef 201501SX20608
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2017010080954 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 2017.